Technology

Fed up with all those remotes? Gather them all up and throw them away, you know you want to. You probably don’t even remember what some of them do anymore. Was it for the Tivo or the Playstation or the Blu-ray player? Never mind. The Harmony One Universal Remote supports up to 15 different devices from on unit. Logitech has thought of just about everything. Read more

A minute optical device in a silicon chip has attained the slowest light propagation on a chip to up until now. Developed by a team of researchers at UC Santa Cruz and Brigham Young University, the chip is capable reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200. The study was published in Nature Photonics September 5 online edition, and the November print issue. The facility to control light pulses on an integrated chip-based platform is a key step toward the realization of all-optical quantum communication networks. They hold the potential for huge improvements in ultra-low-power performance.Read more

The gloomy truth about modern broadband Internet technology is that not everyone has easy access to affordable broadband. People in rural areas must often resort to expensive satellite broadband if they are going to have broadband availability. The government feels that broadband should be available to all Americans, and several agencies are taking steps to ensure that this occurs in the near future.Read more

Lonely Planet, the big travel publisher with the great little books, has released their first five ebook titles to the iBooks store that lets you read ebooks on your iPad. Lonely Planet Discover guides are for Great Britain, Italy, Spain, France and Ireland are the ones available, and odds are there will be many more, since this is a great use of the iPad. You could download and store all 5 guides on your device and throw all the paper copies away, saving a lot of room in your backpack. Plus they are interactive, containing over 300 hyperlinks to websites of hotels, restaurants and other local attractions.Read more

VESA ( the Video Electronics Standards Association) recently introduced the DisplayPort v1.2 digital communication interface, with double the data transfer rate of v1.1, 21.6 Gbps vs. the current version’s 10.8 Gbps. The new version also leaps past HDMI by allowing support for up 4 monitors on a single plug, plus FullHD 3D at 120 frames per second and bidirectional USB data transfer rates of 480 Mbps. The new standard will be backward compatible to DisplayPort v1.1 capable systems.Read more

Backed with a massive $20 of venture capital money, Shmuel Tennenhaus recently came out of stealth mode to launch BingandKing.com , a combination of Don King’s face and hairdo with the Bing search engine.
What's next- StingandBing.com? BingPatrickEwing.com? (puts on sunglasses…) DavidCarusoandYahoo.com (takes off sunglasses…)?

According to his LinkedIn profile, Shmuel is an Ecommerce Expert and Product Evangelist, among other things, which could be seen as strange, considering he has a rabbinical degree in Jewish studies. Be that as it may, he’s seems to be a savvy marketer. Watch the video and decide for yourself. Read more